Identifier: birdlore24nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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h. Hewould always fly up to a window when he saw me, and I sometimes refused tolet him in. However, he soon flew farther and farther afield and seemed toget stronger. He was a great talker when he was with you, carrying on quitea conversation, a low chirping in his throat. I hoped he would sing but henever did. 130 Bird - Lore He stayed until the middle of July. One night he came when I called himand looked at me from a low branch, then he turned his back to me and flewinto a high tree. I said to myself, Young man, I guess you are grown up anddont need your mother any more. The next day I was away but the familysaid he came back; after that he never returned. I had told him more than once that I wanted him to be a real Robin and doas Robins do, but that I hoped he would come back next spring and build hisnest in my garden and bring his family to see me and I am expecting that hewill. So if I ever see a Robin coming through the hole in the sleeping-porchscreen I shall know it is Bobby.
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WOOD THRUSH AND YOUNGPhotographed by Joseph Pollock, Carman, N. Y. Two Hummingbird Photographs THE following facts were communicated to us by Mr. Ira Barrows, underwhose direction the photographs here shown were made. The nestwas found at Red Bank, N. J., early in July, 1921. The photographswere sent to Bird-Lore by Mr. Barrows, from whose letters we abstract thefollowing notes: On July 9, the nest contained eggs and a week later the heads of the youngbirds could just be seen when raised above the edge of the nest, but they werestill too small to be seen when feeding. At the end of the second week, or

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